Bernadette Clement

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The Honourable
Bernadette Clement
Canadian Senator
from Ontario
Assumed office
June 22, 2021
Nominated byJustin Trudeau
Appointed byRichard Wagner
Preceded byNicole Eaton
Mayor of Cornwall, Ontario
In office
December 1, 2018 – June 22, 2021
Preceded byLeslie O'Shaughnessy
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born (1965-05-17) May 17, 1965 (age 56)[1]
Montreal, Quebec
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		Liberal (until 2018)
Professionlawyer, administrator

Bernadette Clement (born May 17, 1965) is a Canadian politician, who was appointed to the Canadian Senate as an independent Senator on June 22, 2021.[2] She was previously mayor of Cornwall, Ontario, having been elected in the 2018 Ontario municipal elections, after serving three terms as a municipal councillor.[3] A Black Canadian,[4] she is the first woman and first person of colour to serve as mayor of the city,[5] and the first Black Canadian woman to serve as a mayor in Ontario.[4]

Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec as the daughter of a Trinidadian father and a Franco-Manitoban mother, Clement attended the University of Ottawa, earning degrees in both civil law and common law and was called to the Ontario bar in 1991. She moved to Cornwall to begin working at what is now the Roy McMurtry Legal Clinic, ultimately becoming its executive director, and continued to work there up to the time of her appointment to the Senate.[6] She was first elected to Cornwall City Council in 2006 as a city councillor.[7][8]

She conducted her mayoral campaign on the themes of developing a more collaborative team-oriented approach to managing the city, as well as seeking a way to advance the city's proposed but long-delayed waterfront redevelopment project.[6]

Clement also ran as a Liberal Party of Canada candidate for the electoral district of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry in the 2011 Canadian federal election and the 2015 Canadian federal election.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ Senators of Canada
  2. ^ "The Prime Minister announces the appointment of three Senators". Prime Minister of Canada. 2021-06-22. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  3. ^ "Bernadette Clement wins Cornwall mayoralty in landslide victory". Cornwall Standard Freeholder, October 22, 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Bernadette Clément, mairesse de Cornwall". Ici Radio-Canada Toronto, February 24, 2019.
  5. ^ "Mayor Bernadette Clement: Cornwall's top newsmaker in 2018". Cornwall Standard Freeholder, December 28, 2018.
  6. ^ a b c "Cornwall's new mayor says if her election is 'a message to little girls, and little girls of colour ... that would be pretty nice'". Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 2018.
  7. ^ "Cornwall mayor-elect Clement shares her vision for a new way". Cornwall Standard Freeholder, October 23, 2018.
  8. ^ "Cornwall, Ont. mayor Bernadette Clement appointed to Senate". CTV News. June 22, 2021. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
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